Steve Yegge on D

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On Thursday, 22 May 2014 at 09:52:20 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I was reading Brad Roberts' bio before his upcoming talk today, 
> where he mentioned that he first heard of D because of blog 
> posts by Steve Yegge, when I remembered that it was likely one 
> of Steve Yegge's posts almost a decade ago that first brought D 
> to my attention, like this one:
>
> "C++ does need to get replaced someday. It's just horrid, and 
> everyone knows it. However, there aren't very many people 
> trying to replace it, either. The only contenders I'm aware of 
> are Objective C and the D Programming Language.
>
> D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the 
> next C++. However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's 
> garbage collected (even though it can be disabled, and even 
> though Stroustroup himself is now advocating adding garbage 
> collection to C++). Walter Bright is one hell of a lot smarter 
> than the C++ programmers who won't look at his language, and he 
> has demonstrated that D is as fast as or faster than C++ and 
> nearly as expressive as Ruby or Python. It's a secret weapon 
> just waiting to be seized by some smart company or open-source 
> project.
>
> But nobody ever accuses programmers of being wise."
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html
>
> I wonder, how many others first heard of D through Steve's 
> posts, which were pretty popular back then?

i and almost all of turkish d users / wannabes did learn about d 
through ali's initiative on a -back then- very popular turkish 
programming forum. this was way before he started working on his 
book. :)

yet, i did encounter steve's post was through HN much much later. 
it was 2009 or 2010 i guess.